Citation:

Sanjeev Kumar, Shehreen, Saurav Panwar, Manisha, Dinesh Gehlot. "Student Perception and Campus Experience about Employability: A Primary Investigation of Higher Education Institutions in Western Uttar Pradesh" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 397-403, 2023.

Abstract:

As one of the highest young populated state, Uttar Pradesh changing its traditional education system to job-oriented education through the skill development. In this direction, New Education Policy-2020 is playing an important role to enhance the employment skill through the curriculum. The present paper made an attempt to examine the students’ perceptions and campus experience on Graduate Employability in Western Uttar Pradesh (WUP) at micro level and also measure employability skill gap among higher education graduates. This paper is based on primary database and 800 sample collected from 03 universities and 04 colleges in Western Uttar Pradesh via well-structured questionnaire. With the help of student’s perceptions about employability, we have constructed various parameters of graduate student’s employability index viz., Career Development Index (CDI); General Infrastructure Index (GII); Curriculum- Employability Index (CEI); Job Market Perception Index (JMPI) and Students Skill Index (SSI). The results reveals that there is quite skill gap between the universities and colleges. The results also reveal that higher educational institutions are now competing with private higher education institutions, and the focus has now changed towards the employability of students rather than just imparting knowledge. Moreover, the traditional education system is moving towards skill, value-added employability courses. According to the document, the state's education system should leverage its strengths to support structural reforms in the areas of employment and employability as well as the growth of its higher education system. The primary level evidence also indicates that there is a need of hour to bridge the gap between employers’ expectation and the serving higher education system.

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Keywords:

Employability, Higher Education, Student perception, Western Uttar Pradesh.